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The Czech minister of foreign affairs, Jan Lipavský, has called on more European Union states to sign up to a Czech project to find a large amount of ammunition for Ukraine.

At a meeting of EU heads of diplomacy in Brussels on Monday, Mr. Lipavský said he also wished to thank the 18 countries – some of which are not members of the bloc – that had already pledged to support the plan to supply the Kyiv government with around 800,000 artillery shells sourced outside the EU or NATO.

The idea of Czechia finding the ammunition and paying for it with funding from other states was first put forward publicly by Czech President Petr Pavel last month.

Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová will pay a one-day visit to Czechia on Monday at the invitation of the Vaclav Havel Library. Although the visit has been described as informal, the Slovak head of state will briefly meet with Czech President Petr Pavel and Prime Minister Petr Fiala. She will also pay tribute to the victims of the December shooting at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University. In the evening, the Czech and Slovak presidents will view the film "This is Havel speaking, can you hear me?” at Prague Castle.

The Geophysical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences is building a new monitoring station near  Horka Dam in the Karlovy Vary region, an area where earthquakes have occurred most frequently on Czech territory in recent decades, the news site Novinky.cz reported. The station should help seismologists to obtain more accurate data than before. Geophysicists issue warnings if tremors of more than 3.5 magnitude are detected. The last time there was an earthquake in the area was last November, when it measured 3.2 degrees on the Richter scale.

Monday should be partly cloudy and mostly dry with day temperatures between 6 and 10 degrees Celsius.